New car registrations in the UK fell 4.4% in 2011 to 1.94m – their lowest level in over a decade – new data shows.

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UK car sales 4.4% lower in 2011

NEARLY ALL THE Republican presidential hopefuls are now on record as wanting to build a 2,000-mile-long fence on the U.S. border with Mexico — a wildly expensive, staggeringly wasteful project that would do little to deter illegal immigration. The candidates have coalesced around this chimera even though illegal crossings, as measured by apprehensions by U.S. Border Patrol along the Southwestern frontier, are at their lowest level in 40 years. Read full article > >

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Republicans are fencing with the truth on immigration

ATLANTA — Drunken driving incidents have fallen 30 percent in the last five years, and last year were at their lowest mark in nearly two decades, according to a new federal report. The decline may be due to the down economy: Other research suggests people are still drinking as heavily as in years past, so some may just be finding cheaper ways of imbibing than by going to bars, night clubs and restaurants. Read full article > >

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Drunk driving seems to be going down, says CDC study based on anonymous survey

NEW YORK — Home prices are falling in most major U.S. cities, and the average prices in four of them are at their lowest point in 11 years.

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Home prices falling in 19 major US cities, with 4 now at lowest level in 11 years

Hundreds of schools are closed as temperatures in Northern Ireland plunge to their lowest on record.

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Card fraud losses in the first six months of the year were at their lowest level for 10 years, the banking industry says.

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Sales of existing homes in the US plunged 27% in July to their lowest level in more than 10 years, figures suggest.

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